The Whisper Workshop (#Whispercon) brings together twenty people interested in discussing and sharing their expertise. It builds our networks and brings people together to share their practices and processes. Basically, how – and why – do you do the things you do?

We set the topics for Whispercon through an ‘unconference’ voting process, so that things that most people are interested in can float to the top.

The room will have the standard university facilities – overhead project with sound and access to the Internet. If you want to use overheads, bring them along on a USB stick. There will be temporary wireless access for the day, or you can use EduRoam to connect to the world for the day.

Key participants

Tseen has researched and published on research funding issues, early career researcher experiences, alternative academic streams, and racial diversity issues in Australia. She is the founding convenor of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN; 2006-2017). Her research interests include scholar activism, social media literacy, and academic community-building.

Narelle focuses on engagement and participation in the areas of teacher and learner capacity building and cultural organisations in galleries, museums and other alternative education settings; social media for professional development including Twitter, Pinterest, blogging and Instagram; and working in academia.

Inger has been specialising in the study of research education and research student support since 2005. Prior to this she lectured in architecture in various universities and worked in architecture offices for around a decade. Her main areas of research interest are doctoral education theory and practice, research practice and policy, design teaching and online education.

Jonathan specialises in finding funding for interesting people. At RMIT he works with artists, designers, educators, architects, fashion designers, writers, poets, media scholars, social scientists and humanities researchers. He is currently researching the use of crowdfunding to finance university research.